Financial Trading Advanced

Offered in partnership with UK Trading Academy (UKTA) & Accredited by Aspire

Delivered in partnership with the accreditation authority Aspire, this Professional in Financial Trading Advanced is a globally recognised academic qualification carrying 240 credits toward continued professional development (CPD) or higher academic advancement. This takes you to a professional trader level.

This isn't just a step up — it's a transformation. The professional financial trading advanced covers everything from technical analysis and trading systems to trade psychology and portfolio design. It's designed to move you from a retail trader to a professional trader capable of being consistently profitable in the financial markets.

Flexible Global Online Learning

Delivered fully online, this flexible programme fits around your lifestyle and location. Whether you're working full-time or trading part-time, our platform allows you to progress at your own pace with 24/7 access to resources and recordings.

Advanced Curriculum for Serious Traders

This isn't just a step up — it's a transformation. The professional financial trading advanced covers everything from technical analysis and trading systems to trade psychology and portfolio design. It's designed to move you from a retail trader to a professional trader capable of being consistently profitable in the financial markets.

What You Get:

Full Program

• The MBA includes 26 expert-led Modules covering strategy, analysis, psychology, and risk management.
• You'll access video lessons, tools, resources,
• live webinars, and tutor support.
• On completion, you'll receive an officially accredited professional financial trading advanced with 240 CPD credits, ready to boost your career or academic pathway.

Course Overview:

Empowering Traders to Become Successful

• Professional financial trading advanced in Financial Trading is UK Trading Academy's/ASTC highest and most prestigious programme
• Fully accredited internationally recognised professional qualification with a course duration of twelve months from enrolment and has a minimum of 420 hrs of learning.
• Provides Level 7 qualification and achieves 240 credits for continuous professional development
• Fully online training course including live webinars, learning programme available 24hrs a day, study at your own speed.

Module 1 and 2

• Introduction to UK Trading Academy (UKTA) and members area.
• The Professional financial trading advanced and how it works plus training modules access
• Forex brokers and how they work
• Opening a broker account to start trading
• Downloading the Metatrader trading application on your computer and phone and connecting to your broker account

Modules 3 and 4

• A very detailed training on how to use the Metatrader application
• Learn how to bring different markets on and display them on multiple timeframes
• Edit your trading platform to your preferred setup
• How to set up indicators and use them to analyse the markets
• Placing both market orders and pending orders using stop loss and take profit levels

Module 5 and 6

• The maths of trading and how to calculate market movement, Lot sizes and the amount of money you place on a trade in the market
• Financial outcomes of trades and how you calculate the lot size to use
• Understanding profit and lost and risk management
• How we use a lot size calculator that you will be able to get and keep that works out all the maths for you simply
• Order types and how to place these orders into the market

Module 7, 8 and 9

• The market index and the algorithms we use to give high probability trade entries
• Learn how to use the company Trade Opportunities for you to profit from the markets as you learn
• Risk management and risk profiles for you to trade safely
• Order types and how to place these orders into the market
• Financial outcomes to trades and the financial terms used within trading

Modules 10, 11 and 12

• Introduction to the Newton Index strategy live on screen in members area
• Newton index criteria and trade selection
• Live examples of trades and where to enter, take profit and position of stop loss
• Understand liquidity, leverage and margin and how they interact with your account
• Risk management and trading psychology
• Eight key points to becoming successful

Modules 13 and 14

• Understand different order types and how to place those trades
• Metatrader indicators and expert advisors and how they can help you analyse and trade the markets
• Our live DaVinci code strategy which streams every day into your members area.
• Learn how to trade the strategy and its rules.
• The Davinci strategy criteria, trade placement and money management

Modules 15 and 16

• Why traders lose money and how we turn you into a profitable trader
• Price action trading and the market patterns that give you profitable trades.
• Trader types and how to trade around your life commitments
• Types of trading from scalping to intraday trading
• Support and resistance identifying price points for action
• Types of support and resistance, how to plot them on your chart and how Fibonacci helps you trade effectively

Modules 17 and 18

• Market trend pulses and determining trend identification and price action trading during trends
• Dynamic support and resistance, determining trend failure and change of direction.
• Finding support and resistance levels and analyzing the chart for trendlines and dynamic trend line evaluation.
• The Asian rejection strategy basics and trading plan
• Software installation and setting the trading strategy up on Metatrader.
• Testing and trading the strategy

Modules 19, 20 and 21

• Flags and pennants, flag identification and expected market movements from these setups
• Reversal patterns, different types and how to identify them
• Breakouts, sentiment and economic data announcements understanding central banks and their roles within this.
• Institutional trading and the difference to retail trading
• Strategy big picture and how to analyse the sub cycles within a strategy and the profit calculations.
• Developing a strategy with rules, trading and money mgt plan
• Back testing, analysis and strategy improvement

Modules 22, 23 and 24

• Learning the Hedging strategy and using the knowledge gained with support and resistance and market structure to produce a constant winning strategy that has an exact trading plan with money management.
• How to set up the hedging strategy and learn how to trade it.
• Learn the Trend Follower strategy combining dynamic support and resistance with the trend cycle push and pull movement to provide accurate entry points.
• Now to set up the Trend Follower Strategy and learn how to successfully trade it